ART 8 students are turning to perhaps their favorite subject- food- as inspiration for our final large project of the year! Students were introduced to the large scale object and food sculpture of American sculptor Claes Oldenburg using the Prezi below. The Prezi is limited to allow for class discussion to go wherever it may. Students are allowed to create any scale sculpture they wish as long as they follow the "not-so-perfect" or "gross" representation of their food choice a la Oldenburg. Tacos, suckers, watermelon, Starbucks, cookies, Reese's cups, pretzels, cakes, cupcakes , corn on the cob and pie are only a few of the choices that ART 8 is creating! Scales range from slightly larger than real life to a sucker with a 2 foot diameter and a 6 foot long stick. Before going crazy with toilet paper, the students had to create cardboard supports and forms. We all now feel like experts on cardboard construction :)
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After playing with perspective on paper and becoming almost experts at cityscapes, country roads and school hallways, ART 8 students are going to showcase their knowledge of perspective in an unusual medium-duct tape. Our school hallways will soon be filled with giant duct tape 1-point and 2-point small group perspective pieces. Students are still responsible for creating correct perspective and for making sure all perspective rules are followed but they get to go big, go bright and liven up the school with a super fun medium. Check out our progress below! day one: group planningDAY TWO: claiming our spaces and starting our piecesART 8 staked our claims in the hallways this morning to start our giant duck tape perspectives. Groups each chose a color they wanted and got started. Each group is given a couple yardsticks, one roll of duck tape and some scissors. This is the summative assessment of our perspective unit so I offer no help and get to enjoy watching the pieces add a bit of depth to our 2-dimensional hallways. days three, four, five: constructing our piecesART 8 students are starting their year by doing a collaborative project that revisits a favorite technique from last year-Zentangles! Zentangle is an art movement that refers to unplanned, repetitive doodling within a space divided by line. To get our feet wet for our final year together, ART 8 students created large-scale Zentangles in table groups of their choice. Students collaboratively drew their organic shape for a doodle space, added 2 dividing lines per person and together decided on the best composition of doodles for their piece. Student completed the Zentangles on all purpose 80 lb. paper in black Sharpie. You can see our pieces in progress below! You can find Zentangle resources in our Resources tab on the left and our final pieces in the ART 8 Gallery! pieces in progressI am glad to see you back again for another year of awesome art at GLMS! Our first two weeks have been full of art projects already! We were busy creating collaborative pieces for our annual GLEF Festival of Tables in October. Our pieces will be up for auction during the Festival's silent auction event. We are excited to provide these pieces for the community to bid on while at the same time, helping to raise money for the GLEF (Grass Lake Educational Foundation) and our classroom. If you are attending the Festival, make sure to check out our pieces and place a bid to own one :) Our pieces are collaborative whole class pieces that have a little part of each student on every piece. Students started by drawing a shape on their group piece then through a series of rotations through all group tables, we added smaller shapes, lines and accent lines. Students then added detail patterns, line and designs throughout their pieces with oil pastel. All pieces will be matted and framed and put up for sale at the Festival of Tables in October. |
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